On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:20:31 -0500, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wed, 17 May 2006, Lucian Stroe wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed SL 4.3 on a Pentium 4 and I have problems with the network
>> card. It is a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet BCM5752 (as I can see in
>> the "Network" settings menu, so it was well recognized by the system). But,
>> at the boot, at the stage of "Bringing up interface eth0", I get the message
>>
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
>>
>> If, after booting, I look into the "Network" menu, I see the interface et=
>>
>> h0
>> "inactive". If I try to activate it the answer is:
>>
>> /sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 not found
>> usage: ifup <device name>
>
>This implies that the eth0 interface was never configured.  The file
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 needs to exist before a
>"activate" will work.

I can understand this, but it looks more as an explanation than a solution
for solving the problem. So, what I have to do?


Thanks,

Lucian.